Animal rights protesters torment scientists

In the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring ...

[Van_Bowhunts]

When Animal Rights Becomes Terrorism and Crime
PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is the most well-known animal rights group in the world. For decades, PETA has labored for the well being and rights of animals, with an ultimate goal of "total animal liberation." Unfortunately for America, and the world, PETA has become something entirely un-American: a group dedicated to inflicting fear, terrorism, violence, and suffering upon humanity.
First, let's review what PETA means by "total animal liberation." PETA defines this as follows: No wearing of leather, fur, or any other animal product; no eating meat or drinking milk; no eating of eggs or honey; no zoos, circuses, 4H, or any other animal exhibition; no fishing or hunting; no medical testing of any kind upon animals, and no pets.
That's right. No Pets. What, you thought PETA only got angry at people wearing fur and leather? That's only a small part of what PETA does. Just imagine a world based on PETA's goal: There would be no farming of cattle or chickens, no meat, eggs, or honey in your grocery store. Millions of farmers around the world would lose their livelihoods, and a major part of the human food supply would be gone. Children, who need milk as a crucial part of their growth, would be crippled.
Anyone who likes to hunt or fish, whether for recreation or to obtain the furs, skins, and meat, would be a criminal. All leather, fur, and even silk would be banned.(PETA says it is cruel to use the silkworms to make silk.) The county fair will have no animals of any kind. 4H would have to close up shop. All zoos would have to close. Knut, the adorable polar bear cub in a German zoo, would have never been born, despite his entire species being in danger. All the species preservation and conservation work conducted and funded by zoos would end. Entire species that only exist in captivity would become extinct.
No medical testing on animals would be permitted, meaning that thousands of new medicines and health care products would either never reach the market at all, or take far, far longer to do so, resulting in unimaginable human suffering and sickness. Finally, most odious of all, there would be no pets. No cats, no dogs, no fish, hamsters, snakes, birds, or any other animal you share your home and yard with. All these animals would have to be removed from your home and allowed to live "wild and free."
None of these statements are false, or even exaggerations. All are from direct statements and explanations by PETA themselves. Does that sound like a world you want to live in?
PETA claims to be dedicated to saving animals. Did you know that, according to PETA's own records (which are available for public review) PETA spends less than 1% of its $13 million budget on actual care, housing, feeding, and home-finding for animals? In fact, PETA literally puts animals to death via lethal injection, which they claim is 'more humane', and then leaves the dead animals in garbage dumpsters! Finally, PETA directly provides funds and support to two groups, ALF and ELF. Those acronyms stand for Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front. These two groups make it their business to attack innocent people for wearing fur or leather, attack and burn research labs, harass and intimidate scientists and workers, and attack and burn people's new homes, just for having been built somewhere ALF and ELF disagree with! These people fit the definition of terrorists: persons who use fear, intimidation, and infliction of harm in order to achieve radical goals.
Patronize your local zoo. Adopt a pet that needs a home. Above all, don't fall for PETA's lies.

[pupsy]

I wondered too,

All those videos that peta has, are they true to life ?? Or are the somehow made to look worse ??
A farmer friend of mine said that slaughter is not as bad as that. That it is a fear tactic ..
I shudder at the thought of those animals being skinned alive, I cannot watch that at all ..
But to limit us to not being allowed to have pets, no milk, eggs, etc is quite extreme ..